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Narcissus1916 posted:Anyone played/playing the leaked remastered version of Goldeneye. I can't get over how surreal it is to play, it might be breaking my brain Yeah it's pretty good! Haven't got far but they did a great job with the upgrades.
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Shoehead posted:Really not enjoying alien armageddon, in large part due to how everything seems to cause particles and fire to sprout out of the ground so I can't see a drat thing. I'm not too keen on how some of Duke's weapon sprites look either. Plus the changes to the og levels fall pretty squarely on the side of horny
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I mean, didn't the artist for Alien Armageddon get their start doing a porn Flash game based on Duke3D. Haven't gotten around to trying Alien Armageddon, I kept on meaning to but whenever I felt in the mood to try it I'd go and there'd be an announcement of the next major update coming soon so I kept putting it off.
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Isn't sebadukeboss or whatever the guy with years-long obsession about one of the trapped by aliens women from Duke3d? Ahhh the best community
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Modern Duke3D mods in general tend to be way, way too much. Too much of just about everything. Too much visual noise, too much content, too much skeez, too much going on at once, too much of all of it. It's all impressive or whatever, it's just so overwhelming. AMC TC is the epitome of inscrutable bloat, Alien Armageddon's combat set pieces are a total clusterfuck of enemies & bullets & mines & explosions and holy poo poo there's even another player character running around doing what you do, and even WG Realms has some superfluous poo poo like multiple currencies for buying chests and using abilities--that's right, there are too many abilities also, each with alternates to choose from! The fast and fluid simplicity of classic FPS games is a big part of what makes them special and being so pick-up-and-play is the reason I spend so much time jumping into them. The overblown systems and features just aren't my bag.
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What do you guys think about the Bioshock series these days? I remember liking the setting but finding the shooting and the gameplay in general to be bland as hell. I played 1 and Infinite but skipped 2.
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laserghost posted:That map is absolutely great. I used to use it for mod testing purposes. I forget, what's the usual delay between the patreon release and the public release for his videos? SeANMcBAY posted:What do you guys think about the Bioshock series these days? Rapture and Columbia are two of the most impressive settings I've ever experienced in an FPS, regarding the gameplay I feel in retrospect the RPG elements are what drag the franchise down the most(kinda like how I've talked before about how the Fallout and Elder Scrolls franchises would both be better off as straight FPS games rather than RPG's that use FPS mechanics for their combat)
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SeANMcBAY posted:What do you guys think about the Bioshock series these days? The gunplay was... okay. At best. I guess it wasn't the focus. I thought the infinite respawns cheapened things but having played System Shock now, I understand that the series was just Like That, so I'll give it a pass. Didn't really like the Plasmids as much; I guess shocking a mook to wrench him was nice, but I didn't get deep enough to do crazy poo poo with them (assuming you ever do).
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drrockso20 posted:I forget, what's the usual delay between the patreon release and the public release for his videos? About a day, maybe two?
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SeANMcBAY posted:What do you guys think about the Bioshock series these days? 1: Impressive setting and an intriguing story let down by wack rear end gunplay and some dodgy design decisions. Also, I've said this before, Ken Levine reusing the plot twist from System Shock 2 to much lesser effect. 2: One of my favorites. Do not understand the hate it gets. Cool story, satisfying gameplay, excellent DLC (Minerva's Den is chef's kiss). Infinite: Ken Levine completely off his shits in the worst way possible. Like 1, it has a fantastic setting utterly let down by some truly atrocious writing, an obvious and obnoxious twist, and stupid rear end design decisions. The DLCs are even worse, with Burial At Sea reaching levels of stupid that felt directly insulting to the player. Al Cu Ad Solte fucked around with this message at 13:53 on Apr 19, 2021 |
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4: You upgrade the guns and they look different, also weapon wheel.
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i can draw multiple direct parallels between duke nukem forever and bioshock infinite and none of them are positive
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Let's not forget the part where Ken Levine decided he was tired of working on big games so instead of leaving Irrational he shut Irrational down and made ~80 people redundant overnight.
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Johnny Joestar posted:i can draw multiple direct parallels between duke nukem forever and bioshock infinite and none of them are positive I'd love to see a thought piece on that, just as I'd love to see a comparison/contrast between how Duke Nukem Forever tanked its franchise where Doom (2016) revitalized that one and made it feel exciting and present for millions of people.
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Lemon-Lime posted:Let's not forget the part where Ken Levine decided he was tired of working on big games so instead of leaving Irrational he shut Irrational down and made ~80 people redundant overnight. Legit stopped being friends with someone because they had Elon Musk fan levels of hero worship for Levine after he did this.
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Lemon-Lime posted:Let's not forget the part where Ken Levine decided he was tired of working on big games so instead of leaving Irrational he shut Irrational down and made ~80 people redundant overnight. (And now that I had to do some wiki-diving, I've just learned that Ghost Story Games, the studio Levine formed out of Irrational, does not appear to have shipped a single game since its founding in 2017.) Marshal Radisic fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Apr 19, 2021 |
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it seems like the ultimate dream of every western auteur game guy is to stop making games
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Uhh Ken Levine was not the owner of the studio. Take Two was. If they shut Irrational down, it was their decision, not Ken Levine's.
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Weedle posted:it seems like the ultimate dream of every western auteur game guy is to stop making games The best games are the unmade ones, like Duke Nukem Forever
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Turin Turambar posted:Uhh Ken Levine was not the owner of the studio. Take Two was. sure sounds like it was him "I am winding down Irrational Games as you know it," Levine said. "I’ll be starting a smaller, more entrepreneurial endeavor at Take-Two. That is going to mean parting ways with all but about fifteen members of the Irrational team."
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Literally everything I've read about that event made it sound like it came straight from Levine's decision making. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/bioshock-creator-irrational-games-is-shutting-down/1100-6417821/quote:"I am winding down Irrational Games as you know it," Levine said. "I’ll be starting a smaller, more entrepreneurial endeavor at Take-Two. That is going to mean parting ways with all but about fifteen members of the Irrational team. There’s no great way to lay people off, and our first concern is to make sure that the people who are leaving have as much support as we can give them during this transition." At least they helped all the laid off employees find new jobs. I guess.  Whatever, gently caress this dude. In other talk, I attempted Alien Armageddon but every time I try and download the zip file for the mod it turns out corrupted. Am I being saved, or do the gods want to prevent me from experiencing Duke?
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Weedle posted:sure sounds like it was him ... it isn't like he could wind down Irrational Games if he wanted. Again, the owners were Take Two. Maybe he expressed that way for whatever reason, but the ones who decide if the winding down is done or not were Take Two. And they surely did it with spreadsheet revenues and costs, and possible risks in front of them, not because Kevin said so and they obeyed him blindly.
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Marshal Radisic posted:
This reminds me of whenever I look up a musician and find out that they went and started or joined a bunch of go-nowhere bands, like they were moving apartments. "Hey, I loved your drumming in Plopping Loudly; I was at 2 of your 3 shows! I missed the entirety of Stairclimber, though, because I was sick that day."
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In other absolutely bizarre news, Dark Forces 1 just received its first new custom map since... 2008. Done by the dude who did Fortress Quadrigon back in the day https://df-21.net/
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Weedle posted:it seems like the ultimate dream of every western auteur game guy is to stop making games Narcissus1916 posted:In other absolutely bizarre news, Dark Forces 1 just received its first new custom map since... 2008. Done by the dude who did Fortress Quadrigon back in the day
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The Kins posted:This craft, as beautiful as it is, is the prison of those who were unable to make it elsewhere. The artform of dropouts, failures and never-weres, all angling to use it as a leg-up to amble their way into the graces of film/literature/comics/tv/horse insemination/animation/etc. It's a strange truth of a stranger medium, defined by those desperately trying to escape it. That first part almost sounds like you're describing porn. Which doesn't make it less true. Kudos to the map maker, breaking a 13 year drought is quite a feat.
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guess no one wants to make custom maps for a game so dead there's never been a source port that's actually been released
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https://twitter.com/jankais3r/status/1383865733063479304?s=20
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site posted:guess no one wants to make custom maps for a game so dead there's never been a source port that's actually been released Had to check up on lucius and apparently he’s still making progress updates
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Following lucius's works is like being in one of those doomsday cults (nearly fat fingered "doomsday cucks" which is also oddly fitting)
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https://twitter.com/urbanfoxxxx/status/1383806296462270465?s=21 I'm sure these have been shared at some point in this thread before, but they're still so cool.
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Angryhead posted:https://twitter.com/urbanfoxxxx/status/1383806296462270465?s=21 When I first heard of this guy I was so incredibly mad that I didn't come up with the idea first. I'm still a little mad. I should do some just for fun anyway, but I'd probably smudge them all up by trying to paint while kicking myself.
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what the gently caress!!!
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Holy poo poo, Superhot is addictive. Holy poo poo.
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Now try it in VR
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Superhot didn’t vibe with me but it’s a kick rear end concept.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Holy poo poo, Superhot is addictive. it fukkin owns haveblue posted:Now try it in VR i want to so bad it hurts
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treat posted:Modern Duke3D mods in general tend to be way, way too much. Too much of just about everything. Too much visual noise, too much content, too much skeez, too much going on at once, too much of all of it. It's all impressive or whatever, it's just so overwhelming. I played through episode 1 and part of episode 2 of Duke3D with the new release of Alien Armageddon and this describes it perfectly. It's clear a lot of effort went into it, but the effort was spent on adding more of everything regardless of whether it improves the game or not. Old enemies have new variants, entirely new enemies, new weapons, an upgrade system, but a lot of these changes just aren't fun. I don't think anyone wanted more types of suicide drones, including one with a hitscan machine gun. You also can't trick them into blowing up by closing a door between it and you. All of the enemies were made way more aggressive, including giving them Blood cultist level of reaction times.
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treat posted:Modern Duke3D mods in general tend to be way, way too much. Too much of just about everything. Too much visual noise, too much content, too much skeez, too much going on at once, too much of all of it. It's all impressive or whatever, it's just so overwhelming. AMC TC is the epitome of inscrutable bloat, Alien Armageddon's combat set pieces are a total clusterfuck of enemies & bullets & mines & explosions and holy poo poo there's even another player character running around doing what you do, and even WG Realms has some superfluous poo poo like multiple currencies for buying chests and using abilities--that's right, there are too many abilities also, each with alternates to choose from! I'm consistently annoyed at how Duke3D mods and TCs have this WOW BUILD ENGINE EFFECTS thing about them where everything is ramped way too far. Just because you can doesn't mean you should, and going back through a ton of these mods over the years, the most popular ones were always a jumbled loving mess. I think it specifically got so bad with DukePlus, which had a shitload of extremely over the top scripting-wank because god drat we gotta use EVERY new Eduke32 feature. Then there's AMC TC, a clusterfuck I will never be able to finish because it has way, WAY too much poo poo and isn't very well balanced in it's mess. The only mod released so far that actually did things very well is Duke Nukem Forever 2013, and it's because it has it's sights set squarely on just recreating interesting things and building a bit on Duke's gameplay loop.
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